Food Security and Livelihood Market Assistant at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Food Security and Livelihood Market Assistant

Job Code: 200001PM
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Permanent

Child Safeguarding

Level 3 – The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.

Role Purpose

The Food Security and Livelihood Market Assistant will work with the FSL team and directly with the Senior Market Officer to ensure time delivery of project activities. These deliverables include but are not limited to; Monthly Market Price Monitoring, Food Quality Checks, Vendor Assessment and supervision, Price negotiation.

Key Areas of Accountabilities
Programme Administration:

Coordinate and clearly communicate market team activities, provide support to project vendors and volunteers
Provides feedback on project’s market activities to SMO
Support the logistic team in identification of new vendors
Sensitization of local vendors and / or their representatives on project requirement, while working with them to ensure a collaborative relationship with Save the Children.
Supervise Market Monitoring data collection to ensure that the data collected by enumerators is accurate, reliable, and submitted in a timely manner.
Work with the FSL team and Senior Market Officer to carry out pre-distribution food quality test.
Work with SMO, FSL team, and the Service provider to set up vendors’ device for project activities
Work with the FSL team and SMO officer to organize price negotiation.
Work with vendors and / or representatives to ensure that all Market linked activities comply with Save the Children Fraud, Child Safeguarding and Protection policies.
Work with senior Market Officer, FSL staff and partner to review and modify monthly food distribution plan.
Work with the Senior Market Officer, FSL team, Community Mobilization to organize regular Beneficiary Feedback meetings.
Work with the SMO to process and deliver cargo clearance to vendors moving project goods to locations where cargo clearance is required.
With support from the Accountability Lead ensure accountability in all project activities.
Work with the Senior Market Officer to ensure that child sensitive Complaints, Feedback and Response mechanism is integrated into project design / implementation
Carry out all market activities

Other Responsibilities:

The post holder may carry out other duties in addition to or instead of those outlined above which may reasonably be required from time to time, in order to assist the FSL department meets expected objectives.

These include but are not limited to the following:

Work with the FSL team to carry out joint supervision before, during and post-distribution:
- Support the FSL and MEAL team with monthly Post distribution Monitoring
- Support the FSL team in carrying out project-related assessments.
- Support the FSL team as and when required to carry out any other project or project-related activities.
Support rapid assessments, baseline studies, and seasonal assessments in collaboration with food security and livelihood colleagues.

Working Contacts:

Internal: Work closely with FSL and Nutrition team
External: Vendors, Representatives, Beneficiaries, Community Leaders, Non-Program Vendors,

Skills & Experience
Market & General Skills:

Level of Education – First degree in any Sciences, Social Sciences or any Market-related qualification
Must have completed NYSC
Minimum of a year work experience
Excellent knowledge of the Markets and Market operations
Ability to manage competing priorities effectively in a constantly changing environment, meet deadlines and work calmly under pressure
Ability to follow Market trends and be able to draw good inference from trends
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Strong teamwork skills with the ability to both support colleagues and request support as and when required
Strong written and verbal communication skills, fluent in English
Ability to draft well-written, professionally presented documents
IT experience – Proficient in Microsoft Office
Commitment to Save the Children mission, vision and values
Experience of working in challenging, insecure areas and willingness to work and live in a rural environment.
Computer literate and knowledge of Word, Excel.

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated thinks strategically

Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity: